Monthly Archives: August 2016

In October our groups plan to visit Murcia to get a taste of the real Spain and to test how well we are doing with this beautiful language. We arrive in Murcia city and after lunch visit the Royal Casino where interest groups hold chats about life, etc. October 4th: we plan to visit the […]

Amongst butterflies seen when we visited Watermead Country Park were Large and Small Skippers, Red Admiral and Gatekeeper; dragon/damselflies included Banded Demoiselle, Four-spotted and Broad-bodied Chasers, Brown Hawkers and Emperors. Ooh, we also saw lots of birds! A red kite was being mobbed by not just a couple of crows/jackdaws but a whole flock of […]

Having chosen a poet in August, we are back on more familiar ground with a topic in September, when we will concentrate on railway trains. We meet at 10am on the first Friday of the month in the Bowden Room. Jill Hart.

Nineteen members came on our July walk and enjoyed a stroll in and around Clipston and then a pub lunch. It was nice to see some very pretty gardens in the village. On September 9th we will be meeting at The Shoulder of Mutton pub in Great Bowden, at 10.15 for a 10.30 start when […]

Nine out of group of fifteen members assembled in July with our offerings – this month the topic was ‘Landscapes’. Not only were very many photographs stunning, but the story behind many of them interesting. The topic for our next meeting on 19th August is Flowers/Fruit (either or both). We seem to be settling on […]

Our next meeting will take place on Wednesday, 24th August, in the Langton Room at 2pm. Robert Forrest will be presenting a talk entitled ‘The Origin of the Chemical Elements’, this talk is a follow up to last month’s talk by Peter Ellement. As a point of interest Sherlock Holmes never said ‘Elementary my dear […]

The Transport Group meets at the Little Bowden Bowling Club, Kettering Rd, Market Harborough, on the first Wednesday of the month from 10am until noon. The next meeting will take place on the 7th of September when Alan Tuck will be showing a film ‘Paddle Steamers on the Thames Estuary’. This should be a nostalgic […]

We had a record turnout last month at Medbourne, which I credit entirely to Frank being the leader. This augurs well for the future as Frank has volunteered to organise the group next summer. So thanks Frank on both counts. The last walk this year is on Tuesday, 16th August, from the Tollemache Arms in […]